Kingshot Troop Promotion Guide: T9→T10 For Maximum Event Points (Data‑Driven)

Kingshot Best Troop Promotion Guide: Busting the Myths for Max KvK Points

This in-depth Kingshot guide provides a definitive, data-backed strategy for troop training and promotion. If you want to dominate the leaderboards during competitive Kingshot events, understanding these mechanics is essential.

1. The Core Strategy: 2-Step Troop Training Explained

A powerful strategy used by veteran Kingshot players involves splitting troop creation into two phases to maximize event points and improve quality of life.

• Step 1: Training (The Stockpile Phase): During periods with no major point-scoring events, your primary goal is to train large quantities of troops one tier below your maximum (e.g., training Tier 9 troops when you can create Tier 10). This creates a stockpile ready for promotion.
• Step 2: Promotion (The Scoring Phase): When a high-value event like Kingdom vs. Kingdom (KvK), Hall of Governors, or Strongest Governor begins, you promote your stockpiled troops to your maximum tier. This is when you use your speed-ups.

Why is this 2-step method superior to direct training?

• Point Optimization: As proven later in this guide, promoting troops during an event yields significantly more points for every second of speed-up used.
• Convenience and Efficiency: The Kingshot promotion system is a clever quality-of-life feature. Instead of forcing you to promote in small, inefficient batches, it allows you to queue a massive batch of troops. The game automatically calculates the total promotion time to be equivalent to training a full batch of new, high-tier troops. This means you can start a promotion queue that runs for hours (e.g., overnight) and log off, ensuring constant, efficient activity without needing to check in every few minutes.

More charts are available at the end of this guide in the Charts Library.

2. How Kingshot Point Scoring Really Works (The Critical Details)

To master this strategy, you must understand how Kingshot awards points, as it's not straightforward.

• Direct Training: You receive a fixed number of points for the tier of troop you are training at the moment the training completes.
• Promotion: When you promote a troop, you are awarded points equal to the difference between the final tier's point value and the starting tier's point value.
• CRITICAL DETAIL: Point Values Change Per Event! The most important and often overlooked detail is that the points awarded for each troop tier are not universal. They vary dramatically between events.
  • Example from the video: In an Alliance Brawl event, a T10 troop might be worth only 24 points.
  • In a Hall of Governors event, that same T10 troop could be worth 1,960 points.
  • In a KvK event, the values are different yet again.

This variance means that a truly optimal strategy must be mathematically sound across all these different scoring systems.

More event point tables are in the Charts Library below.

3. The Myth Busted: Data-Driven Analysis of Promotion Paths

A common Kingshot rumor claims it is more efficient to promote from a much lower tier (like Tier 5) to Tier 10, rather than from Tier 9 to Tier 10. The video's analysis was designed to solve this "optimization problem" with hard data.

Methodology: The core of the analysis is calculating the single most important metric for efficiency: Points per Second. This tells you how many points you are generating for every second of speed-up you use.

• Data Collection:
  1. The base training time for a batch of 100 troops of every tier was recorded.
  2. The base promotion time for a batch of 100 troops for every possible promotion path was recorded (T1 to T10, T2 to T10, etc.).
  3. The different point values for each troop tier across multiple events (Hall of Governors, KvK, Alliance Brawl, etc.) were cataloged from in-game screenshots.
• The Calculation: For every action, the formula Points per Second = (Total Points Awarded) / (Total Time in Seconds) was used.

Find the full training-time tables at the end of this guide.

4. The Conclusive Results: Your Optimal Kingshot Strategy

The data from the spreadsheet provides clear, definitive answers that debunk the popular myth.

Conclusion 1: Promotion is ALWAYS More Efficient Than Direct Training For the purpose of scoring points during an event, any form of troop promotion is mathematically superior to direct training. Because you completed the initial training before the event started, you spend far less event-time (and speed-ups) to get your points, resulting in a much higher Points per Second.

Conclusion 2: The Optimal Path is T9 to T10 Promotion The data is unequivocal: the efficiency (Points per Second) of troop promotion increases as the starting tier gets higher.

• Promoting from a low tier like T5 is far less efficient than promoting from a higher tier.
• There is a significant jump in efficiency when promoting from T8 and T9.
• The mathematically proven, most efficient action you can take to score points is to promote Tier 9 troops to Tier 10. This strategy provides the absolute highest return on your speed-ups.

This conclusion holds true regardless of your account's training speed bonus. The analysis was performed using both a 211.6% bonus and a normalized 0% bonus, and the results pattern was identical.

5. Step-by-Step Guide for Kingshot Players

1. Stockpile T9 Troops: In your daily gameplay, focus your barracks on training large numbers of Tier 9 troops (or the tier just below your max). Build a massive reserve.
2. Wait for a High-Value Event: Be patient. Do not promote your troops until a key event like KvK, Hall of Governors, or Strongest Governor has a troop training stage.
3. Mass Promote for Maximum Points: During the event, go to your barracks and begin promoting your T9 stockpile to T10. This is the moment to use your universal speed-ups for a massive point injection.
4. Dominate the Leaderboard: By using this Kingshot promotion strategy, you are leveraging the game's mechanics to get the highest score possible for the time and resources invested.

This is an advanced strategy best suited for players who have already built their primary fighting marches and are now focused on maximizing event rewards and gaining a competitive edge.